# Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/developing-discourse-on-github-codespaces/336131
**Category:** Developer Guides
**Created:** [November 14, 2024, 12:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/developing-discourse-on-github-codespaces/336131 "2024-11-14T12:12:38Z")
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#### Post date: [May 22, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/developing-discourse-on-github-codespaces/336131/16 "2025-05-22T22:56:56Z")

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Yup it’s just running our standard docker container in the cloud, so you can `cd` to the plugins directory and clone whatever you like.

One day it might be nice if we can have a config in individual plugin repos, so that the codespaces environment can be launched directly from their repos.

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